Publications by authors named "F Thepot"
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- * A joint committee was formed, including various medical societies and the Biomedicine Agency, to develop specific questions and select experts to address the issues pertaining to Turner syndrome patients.
- * The committee aimed to gather recommendations on pre-pregnancy check-ups, pregnancy guidelines, and comprehensive care for Turner syndrome patients before, during, and after pregnancy.
Organised since 1990 in France, cancer genetics has been strengthened since 2003 by the programme "Plan Cancer" which resulted in an improvement of the organisation of activities. The aim of this review is to present an update of the estimation of the needs of the population in this field for the next ten years, provided by a group of experts mandated by the French National Cancer Institute. Identification and management of major hereditary predispositions to cancer have a major impact on decrease in mortality and incidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate paternal age effect mediated by biological modifications with use of data from assisted reproductive technologies.
Design: National IVF registry.
Setting: Fifty nine French IVF centers.
Translocations involving the short arms of the X and Y in human chromosomes are uncommon. One of the best-known consequences of such exchanges is sex reversal in 46,XX males and some 46,XY females, due to exchange in the paternal germline of terminal portions of Xp and Yp, including the SRY gene. Translocations of Xp segments to the Y chromosome result in functional disomy of the X chromosome with an abnormal phenotype and sex reversal if the DSS locus, mapped in Xp21, is present.
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